...there is a Guardian copy editor who is going home proud of themselves for a job well done.

Estimate of US health care cost in 2009: $2.5 trillion.
CBO estimate of the 2001-2017 total cost of the wars in Iraq and Afganistan: $2.4 trillion .

This is also kinda depressing.
But back to space, NASA's annual budget $18.724 billion.

Psuedoscience is I believe the word you are looking for.

Both do the following: they detect when some cores are being unused, they then give less power and decrease the clock speed to some of less used cores, and the power/clockspeed is then increased on the rest of the cores. The AMDs have do this by having 2 different of modes of operation with fixed power distribution/clockspeed settings for each mode. Intel does something more dynamic and on-the-fly.

Now I might have mis-summarized the article, but shouldn't that have been the article summary instead of a rephrasing of the article's lead?

Being forced into showing some humility over this is a nice thought, but...
Felix Ortiz is from Assembly 51. Lets take a look at the 2008 election results:

State Assembly - District 51 - General
80 of 80 Precincts Reporting - 100%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Ortiz, Felix (i) Dem 14,648 86%
Garcia, Luis GOP 2,134 13%
Coen, Grace Con 282 2%

I believe he would be fairly safe claiming 1+1=1 with those numbers.

If you read (or at least scan) the paper being referenced by the article, this is only studying sobering up faster (or more accurately the time until BAC is effectively 0). They are not testing headaches and hangovers. The only mention of headaches and hangovers is a throw-away sentence in the discussion section at the end.

I kept thinking that they just took the 20 min. running time and divided that by 1 day. This is roughly 1.38 percent. Make an assumption about energy consumption being constant while the machine is running, and viola instant buzzword compliance. But then I read the article,

*the JuGene supercomputer at Forschungszentrum Julich requires about 52800 kWh for one day of operation on the full machine, the IBM demonstration required an estimated 700 kWh

Which is roughly 1.32 percent. So no big surprises.

Yep that is amazing. Not the same thing as 2^(-14). Not at all.

(And just to preempt some wise ass C programmer, I do not mean -16.)

Oh yah, YOUR MOM has prior art.

... and both were as wheelchair replacements. One individual was Vietnam vet and was missing his lower legs. He used a platform that was attached halfway up the shaft of the segway and balanced forwards and backwards on that. The other person had muscular dystrophy. He was unable to walk without arm braces. Hate on the segway all you want, but they are a great technological solution to some problems.

In summary,

Best quote from the article:

Giant shiny spider paperweight!

For the Americans in the audience, 1 £ kg = 3.33 $ lb.


I recommend not saying this aloud for it sounds very silly.

I'm just waiting for the advertisement that says:

I can't wait to get PLAID by the Australian government.

I'm going to make a reasonable guess that you took >= 5 years for the PhD. (If you finished in less, please don't be insulted.) This puts you graduating at Spring 2004 or Winter 2003 at the latest.

What popular social networks are you talking about? It certainly wasn't facebook.